Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Did you know that
Kurt Cobain predicted back in 1993 that “someone like Donald Trump” would one
day be elected president? Or that President Obama and Michelle have
secretly been divorced for a year because she is gay? You’ve probably read the
latest on Hillary, so you know that she and Bill murdered Justice Scalia and
the FBI has it on video.

Those and more stories were shared with me recently by
readers, friends and acquaintances via social media. Friends who obviously
don’t check sources … because stories like this are pure hooey. They come from
fake news sites that publish false information and outrageous “facts” about
people or issues on the internet. They look and sound like real news outlets,
but the stories they peddle are completely unsubstantiated crap.

Millions of gullible readers share this outrageous stuff
every single day thinking that it’s real. They can create hoaxes with just a
retweet or “share” – or worse, they actually believe it and send it on to others
who fall for it, too, and they share.
To be convincing, some sites mix some real news with stupid reports. Fake news
sites like National Report and World News Daily Report are utterly
shameless. Recently, someone shared with me the “first successful head
transplant” and the 76-year-old mom “getting kicked out of KFC for
breastfeeding her 42-year-old son.”

A few are truly satire, like The Onion. It’s published by a “news satire” company and describes
itself as a “farce.” You know when the story is about millions of deceased Cubs
fans drinking and rioting “in Heaven” following the World Series win – it’s
probably a joke. The New Yorker’s Andy
Borowitz Report is also satire, although that one has fooled a lot of
people.

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